The B.S.B.B. Mk II

The “Big Steel Battalion Box” is an immersion cockpit for the mech simulation game Steel Battalion (Xbox, 2002), equipped with custom environmental stimuli.

It is also the platform for a cooperative metagame of communication for two players. While a rookie pilot comes to grips with the vast array of controls before them, their only lifeline is a coach who—frantically flipping through a simplified manual—tries to talk them through their first tentative steps into a dangerous world.

The Big Steel Battalion Box is finally installed and open to the public at its new home in the The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, in Oakland, CA! We’re still working out operational hours and the protocol around how it will be playable, so please do call ahead if you’re making a visit just for the B.S.B.B. Not that there isn’t tons of other great stuff to see there!